Hermann Petri
Hermann Petri (born January 5, 1883 in Neunkirchen (Saar) ; † October 1, 1957 ) was a Saarland politician ( SPD / SPS ).
Life
Hermann Petri attended elementary school in Neunkirchen and then worked as an unskilled worker for two years . He then became a miner and was a union member of the miners' association. He joined the SPD in 1917. During the November Revolution he was elected chairman of the workers' council. From 1919 he worked full-time in the miners' association.
In 1922 he was in the newly formed National Council of the Saar voted, of which he was in all four legislative sessions. From 1922 until 1932 he was a member of the Neunkirchen city council.
After the Saar referendum in 1935 , he emigrated to France. He was arrested in exile in 1943 and sentenced to six years in prison by the People's Court . Until he was liberated by the Red Army on April 27, 1945, he served his sentence in the Brandenburg prison .
After the end of the war he was one of the founding members of the SPS, for which he was a member of the Saarland state parliament from 1947 to 1956 . From 1952 he was also chairman of the IG Bergbau Saar.
His nephew Karl Petri was also a member of the state parliament in Saarland.
literature
- Luitwin Blies / Horst Bernhard (eds.): For the overthrow of the Nazi regime. Resistance and persecution of anti-fascists from the Saarland . Blattlaus-Verlag, Saarbrücken 2007, ISBN 978-3-930771-44-8 , p. 21-24 .
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Petri, Hermann |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German politician (SPS, SPD), MdL |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 5, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Neunkirchen (Saar) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 1, 1957 |